Although he has not served his 24-year prison sentence for the murder of Luis Carlos Galan Sarmiento, in 1989, former senator Alberto Santofimio Botero He reappeared in a public act in which he touched on current political issues such as the consultations of the pre-candidates for the Presidency of the Republic.
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About a thousand people attended the event at the Convention Center of the Government of Tolima, including former mayors, former governors and political leaders of Tolima, who accompanied him at the launch of his book ‘Fragmented Memories’.
Santofimio was sentenced on October 11, 2007 by the Supreme Court of Justice as co-author responsible for the death of the liberal caudillo Luis Carlos Galánwho was emerging as the winner of the 1990 presidential election.
At that time, the Court overturned the acquittal for doubt that the Superior Court of Cundinamarca issued in favor of Santofimio and considered that the politician of Tolimense origin did instigate the capo Pablo Escobar to order the murder of Galán, on August 17, 1989 in the main square of Soacha, Bogotá, where he had arrived to preside over a political rally.
The testimony of Jhon Jairo Velásquez, alias Popeye, who pointed out that Santofimio was the one who “prompted” Pablo Escobar to order Galán’s crime, was key in the conviction of the politician.
During the presentation of his book, Santofimio referred to the electoral contest that the country is experiencing and affirmed that in the consultations there are candidates who applied for themselves to reach the Presidency of the Republic.
“There is no will of the parties, there are no channels of democratic participation, there are no conventions, the people are absent from all that,” said the former senator, adding that “they self-proclaimed candidates and made the State spend a million in consultations that confuse the voter.
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